Gore Vidal
Quotes
Books always cost more in those cities where they are least read!
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.
Despite all evidence to the contrary I do not believe humans innately cruel, but they fear change of any kind.
Vengeance must end somewhere, and what better place to stop than at the prince?
The folly of the clever is always more than that of the dull.
How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.
No one can tell another man is true. Truth is all around us...Truth is where ever man has glimpsed divinity.
They say to know oneself is to know all there is that is human. But of course no one can ever know himself. Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.
The rhetoric of hate is often most effective when couched in the idiom of love.
By definition a bore is predictable. if you think you know in advance what a man is apt to say or do, you are not apt to be disagreeably surprised by him.
In a good cause hypocrisy becomes a virtue.
His fault was a common one. He simply did not know what he was;he saw no flaw in himself, a not unusual blindness and preferable, on the whole , to being unable to find any virtue in oneself.
